Mastodawn

@rqm bare #FreeBSD is enough here. But so was #OmniOS (although I had issue with SMB anonymous access with Thunar) and #Slackware with the ZFS slackbuild. #NetBSD also looked nice although I didn’t get far because it was lacking Linux emulation on arm64.

zolaris 6d ago

Release Notes for OmniOSce v11 r151058

r151058c (2026-05-22)

Weekly release for w/c 18th of May 2026.

This update requires a reboot

Security Fixes

Fixed two vulnerabilities in the SCTP socket ioctl path - see illumos 18118.

Fixed a kernel panic due to a stack overflow in the event that too many inotify watches were placed on the same vnode.

curl(1) has been updated to version 8.2.0 fixing multiple security issues.

rsync(1) has been updated to version 3.4.3 resolving multiple security issues.

https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151058/doc/ReleaseNotes.md

#OmniOS #Illumos

tallship May 21

@jselea Thanks goes out to Jonathan for this (still quite relevant) tidbit. For those of us who spent a lot of time with Sun #Solaris up through Solaris 10 there's a lot to appreciate here.

Solaris has been parted out, but here is an Enterprise production scale incarnation that's worth a looksee and testdrive. It's really a shame that the Evil EllisonCo destroyed so much - just discarded it like trash, following aquisitions, and what they didn't toss out in the trash they dissappointed the developers so much that it spawned forks that exist to fill the vacuum to this day:

- MySQL ==> MariaDB
- OOo ==> LibreOffice (The Document Foundation)
- Sun Enterprise Servers - rebranded as Oracle boxes
- Sun Solaris 10 ==> OpenIndiana and others (OmniOS, for one)
- Sun VirtualBox - Oracle VirtualBox

So without dwelling on the past or further ado, let's follow Jonathan's tour, shall we?

#tallship #FOSS #SunOS #OmniOS #Hypervisor #NAS #ZFS
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RE: https://blogs.linux.pizza/api/posts/1l2sks829g

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JdeBP May 13

@jpmens

In the spirit of there always being 1 more #vi clone than one thinks, notice that @lpar 's list is lacking Ali Gholami Rudi's #neatvi which is packaged in #pkgsrc and about a decade old now.

https://pkgsrc.se/editors/neatvi

And even then the rule still applies. There's 1 more clone: Sterling Huxley's and Brent Roman's #viless, a quarter of a century old and what #BusyBox supplies.

https://github.com/brentr/viless

#NetBSD #OmniOS

pkgsrc.se | The NetBSD package collection

🦠Toxic Flange (Gurjeet)🔬⚱️🌚May 12

Well looks like i'm running into a similar issue to this bug report from 7 years ago. Doesn't look like #illumos based anything will work for me :( Such disappointment!

#omnios #illumos #tribblix #smartos

https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/bugs/Td7f99727c138dbeb-M460a4ec6ca51d0f910b7091e/illumos-gate-bug-11049-xhci-runtime-reset-required-in-xhci

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🦠Toxic Flange (Gurjeet)🔬⚱️🌚May 12

@ptribble @joany In case of curiosity,

#smartos #illumos #tribblix #omnios

zolaris May 12

@roeland install #OmniOS for the proper experience.

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joany May 12

@Toxic_Flange Same with #omnios and #tribblix?

🦠Toxic Flange (Gurjeet)🔬⚱️🌚May 12

Well thats a bummer, can't even boot #SmartOS on my dell T630, kernel throws some complaints about xhci (guessing it doesn't like something about the USB controllers or USB 3?) , crashes and reboots. Hrmm.. Nothing in the forums, just some vague references and ancient bug reports that didn't seem resolved.

#SmartOS #illumos #omnios